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Honeycomb Enterprise vs OpenText Real User Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Honeycomb Enterprise
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
AI Code Assistants (8th), AI Observability (10th)
OpenText Real User Monitoring
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
33rd
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Honeycomb Enterprise is 1.0%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Real User Monitoring is 1.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Honeycomb Enterprise1.0%
OpenText Real User Monitoring1.3%
Other97.7%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

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Tech Consultant at multi ideal
Observability has transformed how I troubleshoot microservices and reduce incident time
Overall, I have had a very good experience with Honeycomb Enterprise, but there are a few areas where it could be improved. I would like to see more out-of-the-box dashboards and templates for common Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads so that new users can get value more quickly. The learning curve can be steep, especially for engineers who are new to distributed tracing and observability concepts. Additionally, while the query capabilities are very powerful, there are times when specifying advanced query workflows could be improved to provide a better overall experience for troubleshooting and observability. Beyond what I mentioned, there are a few other areas that could also be improved. I would like to see even deeper native integration with more DevOps and ITSM tools to make it easier to connect observability data directly into incident management and operational workflows. Regarding pricing, Honeycomb Enterprise delivers strong value, but as organizations scale and generate larger volumes of telemetry, cost can become a consideration. More flexible pricing options or cost optimization features for high-volume environments would be helpful. My support experience has been generally positive, but faster turnaround time for complex technical issues and more advanced implementation guides or best practices documentation would make onboarding and troubleshooting easier. These improvements would make an already strong observability platform even more accessible and scalable for enterprise teams.
YA
Sr. Solution Architect, Project Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
User-level monitoring with near-real-time analytics boosts service availability
The use case is about user-level monitoring and the availability of a service for a user. It's about whether the service is available, its performance, and the type of errors a user is receiving, from a user perspective The functions that Real User Monitor is intended for, which is to provide the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The approach offers significant benefits in terms of efficiency, consistency, and proactive security management, particularly valuable for organizations with large, distributed development teams."
"Honeycomb Enterprise has positively impacted our organization by providing live alerts."
"The solution's most valuable features are the queries for the OpenTelemetry events and all the tracing."
"Using Honeycomb Enterprise as a tracing service made it very quick to identify and fix issues."
"Honeycomb Enterprise has had a very positive impact on our organization by reducing the time it takes to identify and resolve production issues."
"Efficiency improvements in processes with Honeycomb Enterprise have definitely been seen, and the most representative example is that more projects can be handled than could be done prior to using Honeycomb Enterprise."
"Honeycomb Enterprise played a vital role in identifying the problems in the initial calls itself, which has actually saved us a lot of incidents and reduced customer complaints by almost ninety to ninety-two to ninety-three percent as per the data I have."
"The biggest return on investment with Honeycomb Enterprise is being able to find, if I am doing production support and something goes wrong, the exact scenario or the exact request and response and the details of that really quickly."
"The technical support is good at resolving issues."
"This solution is very reliable; it's stable."
"The reporting feature is good for us."
"It is a good product."
"The Micro Focus technical support is quite good."
"With the solution, you can easily access any issues in your infrastructure."
"Very easy to implement."
"If you have an old-fashioned infrastructure with data center servers then this is a good solution for you."
 

Cons

"The way Grit architecture is designed and how it works, it is and may not become an alternative choice of code security solutions."
"The areas for improvement with Honeycomb Enterprise lie in the query UI, which could be improved to a more current standard."
"I have used better tools, I would say. I would not say that I prefer Honeycomb Enterprise as much."
"One challenge is that many things have to be defined manually and are not totally automated, while some competitors used for different projects or clients do have automation."
"We can make alerts based on static numbers, which may block us from building alerts that could be generic enough or could be serviced."
"There are a lot many negatives that Honeycomb Enterprise is having. One of them is that it needs good instrumentation and instrumentation to work properly."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"I rate Honeycomb Enterprise a seven out of ten because I feel a lot of the journeys could be made cleaner."
"We would like to see support for non-Windows environments."
"When we want to monitor our encrypted traffic, this product doesn't work because our cipher is not supported."
"I have to say that I am very disappointed with this solution. It's very heavy, and it is a nightmare to deploy and maintain."
"The diagnostics perspective, particularly in terms of the root cause analysis of failures, should be improved."
"Everybody is moving away from traffic and installing agents on the application to do the job, but Micro Focus is using traditional ways to collect the traffic. They should change their architecture completely."
"If it is a standalone solution, however, I would not recommend Micro Focus."
"This technology is considered to be older."
"Some issues with login errors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"If I compare with other vendors, other vendors are more expensive"
"Not expensive."
"The price is approximately €30,000 ($35,500 USD) for the enterprise edition."
"Compared to other tools, OpenText Real User Monitoring is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
20%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Honeycomb.io?
One of the disadvantages or areas for improvement I see is that it is very costly. My honest opinion is that its service is very good, but for me as an individual, if I am using it in a small app, ...
What is your primary use case for Honeycomb.io?
We are the customers of Honeycomb Enterprise. Basically, the purpose of using Honeycomb Enterprise is that it provides larger interfaces and dashboards for the logs of machines, terminals, and the ...
What advice do you have for others considering Honeycomb.io?
If we speak about whether Honeycomb Enterprise is worth the money, I would say if we speak about enterprises or companies such as mine, we have dozens of applications we have developed or deployed ...
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Real User Monitor?
The diagnostics perspective, particularly in terms of the root cause analysis of failures, should be improved. There needs to be more development in this area, as the support and the number of peop...
What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Real User Monitor?
The use case is about user-level monitoring and the availability of a service for a user. It's about whether the service is available, its performance, and the type of errors a user is receiving, f...
What advice do you have for others considering Micro Focus Real User Monitor?
I rate the solution as nine. It is a good product. Everyone should have it as it is essential today, but choose the vendor accordingly. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
 

Also Known As

Grit
Micro Focus Real User Monitor, Micro Focus RUM, HPE RUM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Clover Health, Eaze, Intercom, Fender
Avea, Maccabi Healthcare Services, TEB
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